Alphabet letters
 

I have seen a lot of people putting the child's name on a baby quilt. I want to do this but haven't had any success finding stencils or something to do it with. I have tremors so I can't do it free hand. I spent some time at JAF looking at books and also in my dozens of mags I have. Anyone out there can help me?

Hi, what exactly are you looking for? And how big? Printed or cursive? Applique or embroidered?

Lots of different ways you can do this. Let us know and someone may be able to talk you through it. When I do mine, I just draw them out on freezer paper in the size I need, iron the freezer paper to fabric, cut the applique out and back it with iron on fusible. Then I satin stitch it to the quilt.

MrsDerf ... here's one possibility. If you want larger letters, you could make these larger via your printer or a photocopier.
http://www.quilterscache.com/A/AlphabetPatterns.html

Another possibility is to look in the $ $tores.
Recently I got some large plastic stencil letters that I scooped while I could for piecing and/or quilting possibilities.

There are free printable letters here

http://www.homemade-gifts-made-easy....-patterns.html

I use my computer fonts. Lots of variety here. Our printer is also a copy machine, so if I want bigger letters I enlarge them. Made a Banner a couple of years ago and took my printout to a Kinko's type store and had them enlarge the letters to 4". Worked fine. Also check stores that have art and school supplies. They usually have different kinds and sizes of letter stencils (that's what teachers use to get those letters posted in classrooms). Children's books and coloring books often have larger size letters.

You might check out dollar stores or walmart in the children's art supplies. Look at lettering in my avatar.

WOW never thought to look in some of these places . I was thinking 3" letters apologies and hand turned. I will enlarge to the right size. So off to craft departments tomorrow and see what I can find. Thank you one and all for all the suggestions. What a great group.

I use MS word. Type out the name in the font I want then keep increasing the font size until I get the letter height I want. Usually about 4 inches. I then mirror the name and trace directly from the screen onto fusible. Then appliqué as desired. Simple!

:) I got this off the QB site so time back and hung onto it for future reference -- http://www.mccallsquilting.com/conte..._Templates.pdf (hope I typed it right) -- good luck finding exactly what you want!!

There are stencils I think I saw them at Walmart of the alphabet. You might want to go in the stationer store or someplace that sells drafting supplies to find a large selections of stencils in a variety of sizes.

You will love this book. Fat Quarter Fonts by Terry Atkinson. You can make any letter or number any size you want in in print or cursive. It is all done by machine and NO FUSIBLE.

The link didn't work for me.

Try the paint and craft sections at Walmart for letter and number stencils. Your local paint store may have them too.

What a find! Thanks for posting!!

When I need large letters of the alphabet, I use my fonts on my computer and enlarge them as big as I need. You can run freezer paper through your printer-do mirror image-then iron the letter on the fabric to be appliqued

I use my "Foundation Factory" program to print out paper pieced letters. I get to pick the size I want and can even add the quarter-inch margins if I wish. All the letters are done with straight seams, so there is no chance of "fancy" script. No one who has received one of my personalized quilts has complained about the straight line letters!! If I want to "fancify" something, I use more glam or bling in the letter fabrics. Another benefit is that all the letters in a name will be the same height and width proportions.

Great site and you can download the letters and numbers easily!! That way you have them forever!!

Great link Solstice3, thanks! These look fun & easy :)

Walmart has them in the craft section. They're 4" and about $4-5. They also have larger sizes.

there are some wonderful panels and fabrics with different styles and colors of alphabets, I always buy them when I see them at the store and then use them to create the name, they look beautiful and are easy to applique

Good advice. Go to school supply stores now while everyone is thinking back to school. I have a whole range of sizes of letters.

Friend of mine has tremors also. She prints her stencils off computer and also gets cardboard stencils from office supply stores. She tapes them a little to freezer paper then traces around. She re uses the freezer paper couple times.

I bought a book called Word Play Quilts from here ahttp://quiltville.blogspot.com/p/book-pre-orders.html
It's for pieced letters not regular alpha letters. Haven't used any of the patterns yet but I'm going to soon and they look so darned cute on quilts.

I use cut out letters I bought at the Dollar tree...1 bucks for 4 inch letters....and they are re-useable...find them in school/teachers supplies

Check your local library in the quilting, embroidery or cross stitch books. I have seen alphabets in all those books.

I have used/printed letters from my Word program on my computer. Print the ones off that you want, trace them from the back side onto your fusible adhesive. Cut them out, iron them on, and stitch around them.
Good luck, susan

Google it. Put it alphabet coloring pages. I use coloring pages all the time for simple applique designs.

I can recommend the Fiskar alphabet stencil for their little cutter. It's a set of 2, not very expensive, hard plastic, and a nice size.